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Part of a marriage contract for Ptollarous TM 29113Arsinoites (?)II

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Fragment of a Greek marriage contract listing clothing items brought into the marriage and setting out the usual terms: the husband is to provide for Ptollarous, she is to behave blamelessly, and on divorce he must return her dowry, including 200 drachmas. It dates to the 2nd century AD and probably comes from the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] with the lid [...] [...] unfulled, and likewise a tunic [...] rose-coloured, tunics, belts [...] [...] white, and [...] linen [...] Italian, and cross-striped (?) tunics [...] [...] and the second [...] and [...] Let the marrying parties therefore live together with one another, both Ptollarous and P[...], blamelessly, as they lived together before, [...] he supplying her with all necessities and clothing and the other things that befit a married wife, according to the means of their livelihood. And let Ptollarous conduct herself irreproachably during the time of their life together. If a disagreement arises between them and they separate from one another, either [...] sending Ptollarous away or she herself leaving of her own will, let him return [...] immediately the dowry and the parapherna, 200 drachmas [...] and the [...] [...]

Much of the formulaic clauses is restored by the editor from parallel contracts. Parapherna are goods the wife brought besides the dowry proper, which remained her property.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Part of a Marriage Contract). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Arsinoites (?)

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